Poker club owner ‘amazed’ at shutdown
The police are going to Belfast Magistartes Court today to make an application to keep money seized from a poker club in the city under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
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Poker lingo:
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
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